Professor fails entire class after ChatGPT falsely told him that essays by students were written by AI

Ankita Chakravarti If you swear by ChatGPT, you should know that ChatGPT is not always accurate. The AI models hallucinate and can present fiction like facts. As per a Reddit thread, a professor at a Texas university has failed his entire class after an AI tool falsely told him that the essays they submitted were… Read More Professor fails entire class after ChatGPT falsely told him that essays by students were written by AI

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May 1968 – March 2023!

by Yorgos Mitralias At a time when those who declare, even among the French elites (!), that we are witnessing the emergence of a “new May 68” are multiplying, while noting that in the country now reigns …. “an insurrectional atmosphere”, one can now reasonably ask: to what extent does March 2023 resemble May 1968? [1]… Read More May 1968 – March 2023!

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Why the world’s largest lakes are shrinking dramatically

Laura Paddison, CNN More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water over the last three decades, according to a new study, which pins the blame largely on climate change and excessive water use. Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in the basin of a drying lake, according to the study… Read More Why the world’s largest lakes are shrinking dramatically

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Toxic agenda

Alan Morinis In February, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, had expressed his great joy at the revival of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage in the locality of Tribeni in Hooghly district, West Bengal. At the time, Modi said, “[D]o you know why it is so special? It is special, since this practice has been revived after… Read More Toxic agenda

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Manipur Violence: SC pulls up Manipur High Court for judgment to include Meitei community in ST list

Debayan Roy The Supreme Court Wednesday came down upon the Manipur High Court for its recent judgment which had called for inclusion of the Meetei/ Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribe list. The judgment had triggered violent clashes between tribal and non-tribal communities. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala said… Read More Manipur Violence: SC pulls up Manipur High Court for judgment to include Meitei community in ST list

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UP govt officials ‘takeover’ non-government institution that propagates Gandhian values

Head of the Gandhi Vidya Sansthan said he had moved a petition before Allahabad High Court alleging the government action violated an earlier high court order. Piyush Srivastava Uttar Pradesh government officials and police allegedly barged into a non-government institution that propagates Gandhian values in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, and said they were… Read More UP govt officials ‘takeover’ non-government institution that propagates Gandhian values

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The Underlying Sadness Beneath the Glittering Coronation of Charles and Camilla

When British people say ‘we do pageantry like nobody else’, they are indirectly admitting that we depend disproportionately upon the past to give meaning to the present. Jeremy Seabrook It may have been the grey of the London sky and the tender green of new leaves on plane trees along the Mall that lent to… Read More The Underlying Sadness Beneath the Glittering Coronation of Charles and Camilla

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On Jonathan Strassfeld’s “Inventing Philosophy’s Other”

Erik Hmiel SOMETIME IN THE MID-1950s, the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, a new professor at the University of California, Berkeley, encountered an elderly colleague given over to resignation. The senior scholar, having recently retired from teaching, recalled to Cavell the moment when he realized the seeming limitations of his philosophical prowess. The occasion was the… Read More On Jonathan Strassfeld’s “Inventing Philosophy’s Other”

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